United Airlines

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:54 pm

At this point all they can do is stop responding and hope it goes away... which it would..... or issue a "Ok, ok, we promise to not kick the shit out of people any more."

Post by **Vince** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:56 pm

Interesting. I wonder if a non-doctor would have gotten probation for multiple felony accounts of trading narcotics for sex? Sounds like karma made its way back around to him.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 12:58 pm

United: "We promise to only kick the shit out of convicted felons."

Post by **Vince** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:04 pm

GORDON wrote: United: "We promise to only kick the shit out of convicted felons."

Not saying it was right. Just saying probably of all the peeps on the flight this one is bothering me least.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:07 pm

To me what he did doesn't matter, nor does it matter that he didn't want to give up his seat. It's that if unpunished, then there is a line where an airline can kick your ass for not getting off the bus and it is ok.

If they wanted to put him under arrest for not giving up the seat he paid for, then they should have. I guess they were trying to avoid bad optics of arresting him on the plane.

Post by **Troy** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:11 pm

Apparently this is blowing up over in China, because the dude is chinese.

United has been making a big push into the Asian market. Welp.

Losing some serious value today. The Memes on reddit/twitter/leisher-in-this-thread ain't losing any value though. Goddamn those are good.

The guy definitely appears to NOT be a saint. I'm surprised they let him go back to practicing medicine.

But it doesn't matter - I'll continue to burn United down on social media just for the idea of kicking seated, confirmed passengers off the plane post boarding. Smarter idea - putting that extra flight crew into a rental car and making them drive the 5 hours. Shit for $800 bucks they could have gotten a limo. I don't care how short the guy's skirt was.

The stock hit they are taking is appropriate. I've got a decent yearly flight travel budget, and have been trying to figure out new airlines for West Coast life. United ain't gonna be the winner.

E: LOL

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:24 pm

Troy wrote: But it doesn't matter - I'll continue to burn United down on social media just for the idea of kicking seated, confirmed passengers off the plane post boarding. Smarter idea - putting that extra flight crew into a rental car and making them drive the 5 hours. Shit for $800 bucks they could have gotten a limo. I don't care how short the guy's skirt was.

Even though this wasn't technically an "overbooked" situation, proper... maybe they should stop filling planes. Consider "Full minus 5" to be "full." That way when you are seated next to a 400 pound gorilla, like I was on my last flight ever, there will be an empty seat for me siting in the aisle and the poor chinese girl on the other side of him who was getting smashed by his arms up against the bulkhead. I am not exaggerating. Flight crew cared fuck-all. "Oh no the cost of a ticket would go up $4." Don't fucking care. They'd also then have the room for their 4 crew members.

But I'm boycotting all of them anyway so whatever. I just don't want any slippery slope "Well we just gave you a whopper on your tray and you paid but we need it back for someone else and we are legally entitled to kick your ass if you refuse."

Post by **Troy** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:26 pm

*woosh*

E: Gordon do you not fly at all? Ever again?

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:31 pm

Nothing goes over their heads. Their reflexes are too fast, they will catch it.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:32 pm

Here's one from me:

If only United had kicked the shit out of the 9-11 hijackers. Thanks for 9-11, United.

Post by **Troy** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:37 pm

GORDON wrote: Here's one from me:

If only United had kicked the shit out of the 9-11 hijackers. Thanks for 9-11, United.

Ha. Reminds me of this tweet I saw yesterday:

Post by **Leisher** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:37 pm

One of the images I posted lists what rule/law they broke. Apparently, they cannot remove a passenger for an employee.

Has there been any response from the FAA yet? Shouldn't they be enforcing these rules?

Also, I don't think karma caught this doctor since he'll be getting rich.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:20 pm

Leisher wrote: Also, I don't think karma caught this doctor since he'll be getting rich.

They're already huge pricks... they may decide paying him off won't put the genie back into the bottle, and just let him take it to court.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:30 pm

Whoever runs Twitter just got promised free flights for life.

https://thenextweb.com/twitter/2017/04/ ... nes-tweets

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:56 pm

It's my understanding that the FAA has NO prohibition against passengers taking pictures / videos. PILOTS cannot while operating the craft (but some do, check out instagram). Some airlines prohibit it, or allow their employees to do so, but it's not a law.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 4:58 pm

I told @united to go fuck itself, but did not get my tweets deleted.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:05 pm

Here's the story from the beginning, including today's latest version of an apology.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr- ... -his-crew/

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:25 pm

That lying shitbag and everyone involved in the incident should be immediately canned with zero severance, benefits, or cash of any sort. Stupidity of this calibre cannot be let off lightly.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 9:41 pm

Rumors that they got the wrong doctor who was trading sex for drugs... ha.

Post by **Vince** » Wed Apr 12, 2017 8:19 am

I hate them all.